This document lists 32 ways that the educational tool Wallwisher can be used in the classroom. Some examples include collecting student ideas and feedback, giving assignments, showcasing student work, book reviews, international greetings, and creating matching exercises. The tips are provided by teachers and suggest embedding Wallwisher content into learning platforms and using it for independent writing, cooking lessons, and more. Contributors are encouraged to add their own ideas and share the resource.

1. 32 Interesting
Ways* to use
Wallwisher in the
Classroom
*and tips
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2. #1 - Collect ideas for exploration
Create a Wallwisher with the title of the themed work.
Allow open editing
Work as individuals or class
Embed into Learning Platform

3. #2 - Useful for plenaries
Many children would rather sit quietly than ask or
answer questions during a plenary. Create a
Plenary Wall for children to use instead.
@kvnmcl

4. #3 - Shapes - regular polygons
Students search for images
Copy URLs
Paste back into 'sticky'
@IaninSheffield

5. #4 Giving Out Assignments
I use WallWisher to
post projects to the
web.
Also it is an easy way
to post the links for
the parents to see
what the students are
doing in the
classroom.
@smarkwith

6. #5 Pupil Theme Evaluation
Give questions for pupils to post feedback, evaluating a
theme / topic. E.g. What did you enjoy / not enjoy?
What would you like to do differently? @primarypete_

7. #7 Let Students Showcase Their
Work
Because Wallwisher can play embedded media from linked
URLs, it can be a great way to collate in one place different
types of work students have done. Here I asked them to
choose their favourite piece from the web2.0 activities we did:
(There were lots more but I've deleted ones with broken links.) @antheald

8. #6 Gather feedback
Create a Wall to gather feedback from a wider audience.

9. #8 Book Reviews
We have used Wallwisher for student book reviews and
they LOVE it!!
anne marie

10. #9 - Create Honor Walls
For Veterans Day we had our 5th grade students add
the name of a Veteran they know to our Veterans
Honor Wall. This could be easily adapted for other
similar activities.
anne marie

11. #10 Students share success
criteria
Students use Wallwisher to share their own success criteria for
tasks. @infernaldepart

12. #11 Environmental Pledges
Following on from our Going Green week, we used the
@ipittman
wall to make commitments to the environment.

13. #12 A suggestion box in Library
on the circulation desk

14. #13 International Greetings
For the European Day of Languages we asked as many people
as we knew to add a greeting in their own languages
@langwitch

15. #14 Where in the World were you
born? so a great way of getting to know students and learn about the
A lot of the students in our country (New Zealand) are immigrants from a wide
range of countries,
geography of the world is to get them to post where they come from and link to a
google map. This information is then transferred to the class world map where
Photos and descriptions of each student is placed.
@sharpjacqui

16. #15 Review of the Year
I'm going to use wallwisher with my class for a
review of 2009 and saying what they want to achieve
in 2010.
This seems I really good way of putting these ideas
together. I've made a start with my review and what I
want to achieve in 2010.
http://wallwisher.com/wall/PrimarysevenA
Robert Drummond

17. #16 - Notes to peer presentations
When a group was presenting their work to the class, I asked the
rest of the class to look at the presentations and post a sticky note on
our Wallwisher whenever they spotted an advantage/disadvantage
of renewable/non-renewable energy resources, so they were taking
shared notes about topics created by other members of the class.
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/energyresources
Alessio Bernardelli
@asober

18. #17 Departmental sharing
Use a wallwisher page as a resource sharing
area for your department - can embed in VLE
or Learning Gateway. This is great for
colleagues that are nervous of using new
technology because of the ease of use.
@Libwithattitude

19. # 18 Sharing resources and
embedding them in the blog
Sharing theme-based resources with colleagues and students
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/listening
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/cHFJEZ9Eor
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/Y9L1Ykb28z
@meerisild

20. #19 A thank-you wall
Put a wallwisher on the old computer in the staffroom.
Use it to post thank-you notes for TAs and members
of staff or just to say what a great job the people in
your school are doing.
This isn't my idea it came from a teacher I was training, so no screenshot!
Sorry.
@ianaddison

21. #20 Summarizing Student Learning
For our social studies unit on Christianity, students in Miss
Nichols' Class researched some of the miracles and parables of
Jesus and summarized them on WallWisher.
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/jesusmiracles
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/jesusparables

22. #21 Matching Exercises
WallWisher provides a simple way for teachers to create matching exercises. For
example match the names, images and properties of quadrilaterals or work out
the steps needed to solve five equations.
As only the wall owner can permanently move sticky notes the exercises are
available for any students to do as many times as they wish.
Colleen Young

23. #22 - Independent Writing
You can use
wallwisher with
infants to help them
develop sentence
writing on a simple
theme. It works well
for promoting
independent work
and, once set up, can
be child initiated.
It can also be embedded
in VLEs & Blogs
http://1m.hawes-side.net/wallwisher/

24. #23 - A Class Greeting Card
Make a greeting card which all students have at the end of the
year. Save paper and natural resources. (Picture coming soon
as the greeting card is in progress)

25. #25 - Happy Fathers’ Day
Create a wall for pupils to post their special messages for
Dads on Fathers’ Day. You could start the messages off with
‘My Dad is the best Dad because…’
The final wall can be embedded in your VLE.

26. #24 - Student Reflections on
Learning
At the end of a topic or a term's work ask students to
post what they have learnt, how classes can be
improved or what they would like more help with. This
one was a year 6/7 maths class:

27. #26 - Cooking with Moodle
For one of my Moodle Courses (it was about cooking with Moodle ) I created a
wall for participants to post stickies before the course even started to get to learn
each other:

28. #27 - Fast Food- collecting
statements
I use it in my English class for getting statements on a video or topic they will have to
discuss. Once they've finished, 2 students take my place and make a stack of the
arguments, then pick one sticky after the other and discuss with the class where to place
it to get stacks of similar arguments. This makes it much easier for the class to write a
composition, as they already have collected the arguments.

29. #28 - Workshop on MAHARA
For a workshop on MAHARA I had asked the participants for their expectations
and which topics they wanted to have covered in the workshop.

30. #29 - Use of cellphones in
school
When the new iPhone was launched we discussed the use of cellphones in class.

31. #30-Buenos Aires, Argentinaabout Chileanof the 33
We are in
To speak and the news about the rescue
Miners from different schools in the same area of the city
miners was very important for us. This is what ( 10/11 year old) kids wrote
about it. They were
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/rJNRWPx4L
gabriela rosso

32. #31 - Use Wallwisher as a
'storyboard' when creating a
dialogue /ways that my/ students (Japanese as a 2nd
I was looking for comic movie
Language) could work collaboratively online to create a
storyboard for their situational dialogue (eating out).
Discovering that one way to create storyboards is using sticky
notes on a whiteboard, I immediately thought of Wallwisher to
do this online. I shall now go build the wall...

33. #32 - Create a 'continuum' - Post your
point of view.
@russellogden (inspired by Britt Gow via Twitter)

34. If you would like to:
• Contribute your ideas and tips to the presentation.
• Let me know how you have used the resource.
• Get in touch.
You can email me or I am @tombarrett on Twitter
If you add a tip (or even if you
don't) please tweet about it
and the link so more people
can contribute.
I have created a page for all of Image: ‘Sharing‘
the Interesting Ways
presentations on my blog.
Thanks for helping
The whole family in one place :-) Tom Barrett
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